Twelve and Clara + Eleven with the Ponds
"Where are we?" Clara asked looking at the hallway in front of her. It looked as if the TARDIS had landed inside a hotel.
"I don't know I put it on random, let's have a look around" the Doctor said, he walked out the TARDIS followed by his companion.
"But it's just a hotel, let's go to another planet" Clara whined wanting a space adventure and not a boring hotel.
"This place looks awfully familiar" the Doctor commented looking at Clara.
"No shit Sherlock, it looks like a hotel" Clara said walking through the hallway with the Doctor by her side.
"I think I've been here before" the Doctor whispered before the time travelers got distracted by sounds coming from the end of the hallway.
"Finally something is happening" Clara excitedly said walking towards the sounds. She discovered that the noise came from a room.
"Clara, No. Wai-" the Doctor yelled but Clara already had opened the room. Her eyes widened at the view in front of her.
"Maybe it's something to do with the people, some connection between the four of you that'll tell me how to fight it." A familiar voice said.
The Doctor joined Clara at the door and looked at the four people in the room. A certain ginger-haired woman noticed the duo.
"Doctor, we got more people" She alarmed the man with the bowtie. The man turned around to take a look at the new visitors.
"Ah, Hello there. Don't be afraid I'm here to help" He told them with a small assuring smile.
Clara's eyes widened as she looked at the younger Doctor, she had never seen him wear that outfit. He looked younger in it and less dark.
"I'm John Smith and this is Clara Oswald" The Twelfth Doctor informed the younger Doctor with a grin pushing Clara further into the room and closing the door behind when he followed Clara.
"I'm the Doctor, that's Amy" he pointed at Amy who waved. "That's Rory" he nodded at a man who gave the duo a smile. "And that's Gibbis" the younger Doctor introduced them.
"Hello" Gibbis replied
"We have to focus on the problem before someone else dies" the younger suddenly said turning seriously.
"Wait someone died?" Clara said in shock.
"Amy inform our new visitors about what we know while I think about a solution" The younger Doctor ordered Amy who nodded and walked towards the duo.
"Okay, so. There's a beast who chooses his next victim based on their fears. This floor is filled with rooms and in every room there's a fear from someone, your room will be here too. When someone says Praise him it means that you're his next victim. You'll keep repeating those words until you willingly go to the beast. Then he kills you. Also there's no exit from this building so we're stuck here" Amy quickly explained.
"Do you think the Doctor can help us?" Clara asked curiously not liking the situation.
"Look, he'll work it out. He always does. Just let him riff and move anything expensive out of his way" Amy told Clara.
"Oh no. Oh, no, no." They heard the younger Doctor mumble.
"Doctor what's wrong?" Amy asked reading his expression.
"It's not fear, it's faith. Not just religious faith, faith in something. Howard believed in conspiracies, the external forces controlled the world. Joe had dice cufflinks and a chain with a horseshoe. He was a gambler. Gamblers believe in luck, an intangible force that helps them win or lose. Gibbis has rejected any personal autonomy and is waiting for the next batch of invaders to oppress him and tell him what to do." The younger Doctor ran his hand through his hair as he continued.
"They all believe there's something guiding them, about to save them. That's what it replaces. Every time someone was confronted with their most primal fear, they fell back on their most fundamental faith. And all this time, I have been telling you to dig deep, find the thing that keeps you brave. I made you expose your faith, show them what they needed" the younger Doctor explained.
"But why us?"Why are we here?" Rory asked.
"It doesn't want you. That's why it kept showing you a way out. You're not religious or superstitious, so there's no faith for you to fall back on. It wants her" The younger Doctor looked at Amy.
"What about us, are we save?" Clara whispered to the older Doctor.
"We'll be save if we stick to my younger self and companions" the Doctor responded. The other people hadn't heard them.
"Me? why?" Amy wondered looking shocked.
"Your faith in me. That's what brought us here" the younger Doctor said as he moved towards Amy.
"But why do they lose their faith before they die and start worshipping it?" Rory asked not wanting to believe that his wife is the beast' next victim.
"It needs to convert the faith into a form it can consume. Faith is an energy, the specific emotional energy the creature needs to live. Which is why at the end of her not, Lucy said-"
"Praise him" Amy ended the Doctor's sentence with those words.
"Exactly"
"No, oh, please, no" Rory worriedly said looking at his wife in shock.
They all heard a growl coming from the hallway.
"Everybody start moving!" the older Doctor ordered as they all started to run towards the exit of the room.
They ran through the hallways. Clara wasn't liking this situation for one bit even though she got to see the silly Doctor with his bowtie again. Amy stopped at a crossroad causing everyone to stop too.
"Amy? What are you doing?" the younger Doctor exclaimed worriedly.
"He is beautiful" Amy told everyone.
"Leave her! Just leave her!" Gibbis yelled frustrated. The younger Doctor grabbed Amy and dragged her into a room trying to keep her save. Everyone followed them.
Clara frowned when saw a little girl sitting on a suitcase gazing out the window in the room. But she got distracted when the beast started pounding on the door. She, the older Doctor and Rory tried to keep it closed not wanting the beast to kill Amy.
"Doctor, what's happening. It's changing me. It's changing my thoughts" Amy informed her Doctor getting really scared.
"I can't save you from this. There's nothing I can do to stop this" the younger Doctor truthfully told his companion. Clara frowned at this, the Doctor doesn't just give up!
"What?" Amy said shocked thinking the same thing as Clara.
"I stole your childhood and now I've led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew this would happen. This is what always happens"
The beast bursted through the door. Clara and the older Doctor quickly jumped out of the way but the door slammed Rory into a wall.
"Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond, the girl who waited for me. I'm not a hero. I really am just a mad man in a box. It's time we saw each other as we really are" the Doctor pleaded to Amy.
Clara's heart broke at what the Doctor said, the Doctor was her hero but he didn't believe that. She grabbed the older Doctor's hand not caring what he would think. She wanted the comfort of her best friend.
Clara noticed that the beast staggered backwards.
"Amy Williams, it's time to stop waiting" the younger Doctor continued.
The beast collapsed. When the lights flickered the Doctor went to the beast.
"I severed the food supply, sacrificing their faith in me. I gave you the space to die. Shush, shush" the Doctor said sorrowfully.
The hotel dissolved into a hologrid. So it wasn't a hotel after all thought Clara.
"What is it, a minotaur or an alien? Or an alien minotaur? That's not a question I thought I'd be asking this morning" Amy asked. Clara gave her a smile, she liked this companion of the Doctor.
"It's both actually. Yeah. Here we go" the younger Doctor said looking into a holographic database. Clara released the older Doctor's hand as he went over to his younger self to look at the database.
"Distant cousin of Nimon, They descend on planets and set themselves up as gods to be worshipped. Which is fine, until the inhabitants get all secular and advances enough to build bonkers prisons" The older Doctor said before his younger self could say it. He earned a respectfully look from the younger Doctor.
"Correction. Prisons in space" Rory told them as he and Gibbis looked through a porthole. Clara joined them curious as to what they saw.
"Where are the guards?" Amy observed.
"No need for any. It's all automated. It drifts through space, snatching people with belief systems and converts their faith into food for the creature." The younger Doctor explained to his companion.
"See the planet there?" Gibbis noticed through the porthole.
"Which one?" Clara asked.
"There, the grey on there" Gibbis pointed out.
"Yes" Rory said.
" That's where I'm from" Gibbis told them proudly.
"It didn't want just me, so you must believe in some god or someone, or they'd have shown you the door too. So what do Timelords pray to? Amy asked her Doctor. Clara looked at the younger Doctor curious about his answer.
"According to the in-flight recorder, the programme developed glitches. It got stuck on the same setting, the fears from the people before us weren't tidied away" the younger Doctor explained changing the subject.
The beast growled getting everyone's attention.
"What's it saying?" Clara asked.
"An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent, drifting in space through an endless, shifting maze. For such a creature, death would be a gift. Then accept it, and sleep well. I wasn't talking about myself" the younger Doctor said just before the beast died.
"Could I have a lift? Just to the nearest galaxy would do" Gibbis suddenly spoke up.
"Sure, what about you two?" the younger Doctor asked as he turned towards Clara and the older Doctor.
"We've got our own ride" the older Doctor said nodding towards his TARDIS next to the TARDIS from his younger self. Nobody had noticed that there were two TARDISes because they were caught up in the mystery.
"No way" Amy whispered in shock. The younger Doctor turned towards the thing the man had nodded too, his eyes widened in surprised when he noticed the second TARDIS.
"You're the Doctor!" Rory said with a grin.
"but- , how-, when-" the younger Doctor mumbled in shock as he observed his older self.
"Hello Amelia, Rory" The older Timelord greeted his old companions with a sad smile.
Amy walked towards him and hugged him. Clara chuckled when the Doctor stiffened in the hug.
"he isn't a hugging person anymore" Clara informed Amy as she pulled away.
"So you traveled with him too if you know he was a hugging person before?" Amy asked as she nodded towards the younger Doctor who stared at them in shock.
"Yes, I traveled with Chinny too" Clara grinned.
"Oi, Chinny?" Both the Doctor exclaimed at Clara.
Amy and Clara chuckled at their behavior.
"We have to go Clara, your boyfriend is probably waiting for you" the older Doctor said not wanting the girls to team up against him.
"Fine!"
"Take care of him Clara, don't let him travel alone" Amy told Clara with a smile.
"I won't let him travel alone, he's stuck with me" Clara responded causing the older Doctor to groan.
"OI" he exclaimed as Clara smacked him.
"rude" she said. He rolled his eyes at her.
"Have a good time with the Doctor" Clara told Amy and Rory who nodded with a smile. "And you" she continued as she looked at the younger Doctor.
"See ya soon" she said before disappearing into the TARDIS.
"It was good seeing you both again, keep an eye on Chinny here. We don't want him to make mistakes in dangerous situations" The older Doctor grinned as he used the nickname Clara said earlier.
"Keep Clara around Doctor, she's a good companion" Amy recommended the older Doctor.
"Thank you, goodbye" the older Doctor said with a sad smile before he disappeared into his TARDIS. It was only the four of them left when TARDIS dematerialized.
"So, let's get you home then" The younger Doctor told Gibbis as he moved towards his TARDIS.
A/N So 'The God Complex' with Twelve and Clara huh? Do you guys want more reunions where the Doctors and companions meet in episodes? Let me know what you thought! Also Happy National Cosplay Day! Have a wonderful day x
~K